The Last Time Machine — Roger L. Johnson

I'm dead! My name is Daniel Hilton. I am an artillery Captain with the Union Army, assigned to the Second Regiment of the Baltimore Volunteers. I am under the orders of General Winfi eld Scott to meet and escort a secret shipment of newly-minted gold coins from Richmond to the Potomac River. The last thing I remember before the lightening struck me was picking up the strange coin. I am now inside a smoke-filled chamber with Lieutenant Alderson's severed arm at my feet. In a moment, I will step into either heaven or hell. This is not as I expected death to be. May God have mercy on my soul.' So begins the amazing saga of Captain Daniel Hilton as he steps from the time machine into the world of the young but self-centered CEO of RothCor; Jessica Rothman. At first, Jessica wants to kill Daniel for his interference in her ingenious gold heist, but as these complex and diverse characters develop and adjust to their precarious and unusual relationship, she presents him with a horrible moral dilemma. 'The price of your ticket back to your wife and child is to be one of my lovers.'